A society that features central banks, made up debt, poverty, taxes, tax accounting, marketing, insurances, finance, stock markets, Bitcoin mining, KPMG, 25-fold redundant mobile carriers and billions of people working to maintain a giant abstraction layer of money ... isn't intelligent. Our entire society has turned into a giant number circus. Wi... See more

people building tech products so often miss the point the point is to help people live a good life, not an efficient life the point is resonance, not scale the point is to deliver comfort, not just convenience the goal is not technology - the goal is human flourishing

Scale is quite valuable, but the costs are usually hidden. Consolidation leads to monoculture, it reduces the stock of unique ferments. Culture, taste, and invention are often bottom-up phenomena. They require the opposite of scale. They require distance, and working alone.

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation